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		<h1>Tutorial &minus; Introduction</h1>

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			In this tutorial, you will be creating a <strong>basic news
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			pages. Next, you will create a news section that reads news items
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		<p>This tutorial will primarily focus on:</p>
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			<li>Model-View-Controller basics</li>
			<li>Routing basics</li>
			<li>Form validation</li>
			<li>Performing basic database queries using &quot;Active
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		<p>The entire tutorial is split up over several pages, each
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				teach you the basics of controllers, views and routing.</li>
			<li><a href="news_section.html">News section</a>, where you'll
				start using models and will be doing some basic database operations.</li>
			<li><a href="create_news_items.html">Create news items</a>,
				which will introduce more advanced database operations and form
				validation.</li>
			<li><a href="conclusion.html">Conclusion</a>, which will give
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